Re: named arguments

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Michael Goffioul
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Olaf Till <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:21:19PM +0100, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> Looks like named arguments are still positional
>>>
>>> function namedarg (a,b='named b',c='named c')
>>>  disp(b);
>>>  disp(c);
>>> end
>>>
>>> > namedarg(1)
>>> named b
>>> named c
>>> > namedarg(1,b=0)
>>> 0
>>> named c
>>> > namedarg(1,c=0)
>>
>> What you pass as second argument is just the value of the assignment
>> "c=0", which is "0", no matter whether you call the variable assigned
>> to "c" or something else.
>>
>> I'm not aware of Octave supporting named arguments. There was once a
>> suggestion to support named arguments, but it has been disapproved
>> because of the risk of future incompatibilities with Matlab.
>
> Indeed. I think you (Juan) are confusing named arguments and argument
> default values.
>
> Michael.

Ok, I see. Then we have default values for arguments but not named
arguments. Good. Thanks!


-- 
M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
-----
PhD Student
University of Zürich
http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/